King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 10:16
“Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 10
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A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
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The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
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Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
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Blessed [art] thou, O land, when thy king [is] the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
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By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
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